This program adapts and develops technologies, such as smartphone apps, online training programs, electronic medical records, and internet-delivered self-management interventions with telephone and WeChat (SMS) coaching, to implement measurement-based care (MBC) for depression in community mental health centres across Shanghai. Technology-enabled MBC (called “enhanced” or eMBC) tools and training developed through EMBED will be available through the Digital Hub and may serve as models for future development and scale up in the region.

The first phase of the project, a situational analysis to identify and evaluate important contextual factors, facilitators, and potential challenges to implementation, is currently underway and slated for completion by March 2019.